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Leadership

The American Enterprise Institute’s governance is overseen by our Board of Trustees, composed of leading business and financial executives. The Institute’s research agenda and scholarly appointments are reviewed by our Council of Academic Advisers, a group of distinguished outside scholars. AEI’s day-to-day management comes from the officers on our executive team.

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The American Enterprise Institute sponsors original research on the world economy, U.S. foreign policy and international security, and domestic political and social issues.

History

The American Enterprise Association (AEA) arrived in Washington in 1943, in the middle of World War II. In Congress there was talk of making wartime price and production controls permanent when the war ended to prevent another depression.

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AEI’s Council of Academic Advisers, chaired by Yale Law School Professor George L. Priest and including distinguished academics from a variety of policy-related fields, advises AEI’s president on the Institute’s research agenda, publications, and appointments, and each year selects the recipient of the Irving Kristol Award.

George L. Priest, Chairman Edward J. Phelps Professor of Law and Economics Yale Law School

Alan J. Auerbach Robert D. Burch Professor of Economics and Law University of California, Berkeley

Eliot Cohen Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies Johns Hopkins University

Eugene F. Fama Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance Booth School of Business University of Chicago

Martin Feldstein George F. Baker Professor of Economics Harvard University

Aaron L. Friedberg Professor of Politics and International Affairs Princeton University

Robert P. George McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence Director, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions Princeton University